III international conference “World Steel Semis Market 2010”, 18-19 October 2010, Istanbul, Turkey, "Ceylan Intercontinental Hotel"

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Key topics Speakers List of Participants Preliminary programme Register online Key topics of "World Steel Semis Market 2010": What to expect from steel market in the nearest future: full recovery or another wave of recession? Steel industry’s main results of 2010 and prospects. Development of long products market. New horizons for main billet consumers. Major billet suppliers: strategies and tactics. Flats market – current state and prospects of demand and price trends. World slab market: reality and future. Slab producers’ strategies.

Sponsor: Coffee-break Sponsor:

• Steel Semis Producers and Suppliers
• Finished Products Producers (representatives of integrated mills, mini-mills, re-rollers)
• Exporters/ Importers: international trading companies
• Steel-service centers
• Sea Shipping Companies and Logistics Providers
• Consultants and Analysts involved in global steel market
• Financial Institutions: Investment Banks / Infrastructure Funds

• To listen to the top experts about current state and outlook of the world steel semis market as well the prospects of finished products market development.
• To network discussing current situation and challenges of the steel business.
• To establish new and strengthen existing business contacts.
• To compose development plans and company strategy on the basis of data obtained during event.
  
  CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

Iron & Steel Statistics Bureau CEO Richard White	Liberty Steel (Severstal) Managing Director Dmitry Poljakov	Metinvest Holding Head of Market Research Department Yelena Dimitrova	Kaptan Metal Foreign Trade & Transport INC. Export Area Manager Yusuf Sonmez	EZZ Steel Marketing Director George Matta
World Steel Dynamics Managing Partner Sheryl Iwanski	Arab Iron & Steel Union Chairman Dr. Hilal H. Al-Tuwairqi	Mobarakeh Steel Vice-President Sales & Marketing M.R. Shamsabadi	Evraz Holding Chief Analyst Kirill Zhilyaev	Siderweb General Manager Luigi Cuzzolin
Metal Expert Head of Global Market Research Tatyana Man'ko	Metal Expert Editor Metal Expert News Ekaterina Barkova	Colakoglu Metalurji Regional Export Manager Dr.Koray Gunay	Coutinho & Ferrostaal GmbH Managing Director Jose F. Gasca Mejia	China International Capital Corp. Ltd. Advisor of MySteel, Vice President of Research Department Henry Liu
Yazd Rolling Mill Commercial Manager Bahador Ahramian	Al-Ittefaq Steel Product Company (Al Tuwairqi Group) GM, Reliability and Production Planning Abdul Hadi A Al Yousef	KMC (Kayseri Metal Center) Vice-President Serkan Gurler	Acciaieria Arvedi S.p.A. Extra UE Export Manager Cesare Pasquali	Metal Expert Consulting Market Analyst Nadezhda Komarova
Navigation Maritime Bulgare Manager Chartering Depart. Emil Kolev	Marvel International Management & Transportation Co. President Levent Karacelik	Metal Expert Freight Chief Editor Sergey Reva

• Global Steel: From Peak to Trough and Back? Richard White, CEO, ISSB
• Navigating the crisis, Sheryl Iwanski, Managing Partner, WSD
• Will China be the driving force of global steel industry? Impact of government regulation in China on its role in the world steel market, Henry Liu, Advisor of MySteel, Vice President of Research Department of China International Captial Corp. Ltd.
• Global outlook and Turkey, Yusuf Sonmez, Area Export Manager, Kaptan Metal Foreign Trade & Transport INC.

• Current state and outlook of the global long products market, Tatyana Man'ko, Head of Global Market Research, Metal Expert
• Middle East countries as big steel consumers. New projects, production and consumption growth – Iran, Iraq, UAE, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Syria, Dr. Hilal H. Al-Tuwairqi, Chairman, Arab Iron & Steel Union
• TOPIC – pending, Bahador Ahramian, Commercial Manager, Yazd Rolling Mill
• North Africa Steel markets: recent developments and outlook, George Matta, Marketing Director, EZDK
• Europe: when should total demand recovery in one of the biggest steel consuming regions be expected? How much do currency fluctuations impact on export volumes of European longs? Luigi Cuzzolin, Managing Director, Siderweb

• Optimization model of the global steel billet market, Nadezhda Komarova, Market Analyst, Metal Expert Consulting
• Billet Planning in Supply Chain Strategy, the good Balance, Abdul Hadi A Al Yousef, General Manager Reliability and Production Planning, Al-Ittefaq Steel Product Company (Al Tuwairqi Holding Company)
• CIS as key billet supplier: main trade indices and prospects, Kirill Zhilyaev, Chief Analyst, Evraz Holding
• Growing potential of billet production in Turkey is to reduce semis import and to increase its export share in the world steel market. Competitiveness strategy – pending

• Ways to decrease transport constituent in final cost of Handysize shipments, Emil Kolev, Manager Chartering Depart., Navigation Maritime Bulgare
• Steel semis shipping from the CIS countries to Europe, Middle East and North Africa. Influence of these freight flows on Handysize/Handymax freight rates, Levent Karacelik, President, Marvel International Management & Transportation Co.
• Sea-river and coaster vessel markets: main trends and development perspectives 2010 – 2011, Sergey Reva, Freight Market Observer, Metal Expert Freight

• Global flat products market outlook: trade trends and supply chain, Jose F. Gasca Mejia, Managing Director, Coutinho & Ferrostaal Co.
• Growing potential of Turkish flats production in the world steel market. Colakoglu as a new flats producer and the major Turkish slab supplier, Dr. Koray Gunay, Regional Export Manager, Colakoglu Metallurgi
• Turkish import of flat products. Challenges of Import Duties for Turkish Importers and Consumers, Serkan Gurler, Vice-President, KMC
• Middle East flats market: current situation and prospects. Iran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Egypt – the biggest market players in the region, M.R. Shamsabadi, Vice-President Sales & Marketing, Mobarakeh Steel
• Hot rolled flat products: ultra thin gauges for export, Cesare Pascuali, Extra UE Export Manager, Acciaieria Arvedi S.p.A.

• Current state and outlook of global slab market, prices, trade flows, Ekaterina Barkova, Metal Expert News Editor, Metal Expert
• Prospects of CIS slab market: from now to the future, Elena Dimitrova, Head of Market Research Department, Metinvest Holding
• CherMK JSC Severstal in the world slab market. Current position and prospects, Dmitry Poljakov, Managing Director, Liberty Steel & Services GmbH

• What will be the determinative factor for steel semis prices: demand, production cost or suppliers’ competition? Who will dictate the prices?
• Role of China in the world steel market.
• Outlook of global demand for finished products: steel market is to succeed or to survive?
• Is there a threat of overproduction? Or market balance will be reached by consumption growth at the end of the year?
• Developing countries as a life buoy for steel industry.
• Changes in supply chain: from producers directly to end-users. What’s the future for trading companies?

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